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Hi I'm Kari Wethington for expertvillage.com. Today we are doing Writer's Guide Self Editing
Basics. Let's talk about spelling. This is an important first step in any editing process
whether it is a business letter or an email. You should always check what you've written
to make sure you have everything spelled correctly. So start with your computer's built in spell
check. It will usually offer suggestions and make sure you read through the suggestions
carefully to make sure you're picking the right one. It's important to make sure you
do that first read through with the spell check but it is not your final step. After
you've used your computers built in spell check it is important to reread your own writing.
Computers don't catch everything so it is important to look at every word closely and
make sure you have it spelled right. Especially names that are local, street addresses, town
names, people's names. Things like that that spell check won't catch. Let's look at a couple
examples. Here we have an example of some business writing. The first sentence. Company-wide,
sales have increased by 200 percent in the last year. Spell check would probably find
this when you read through with your computer but it's always good to reread yourself and
clearly that is misspelled it should be an instead of a second e. So someone that you
work with professionally, they are definitely going to notice that. The second sentence
says, Next year we expect to see even more demand, but also more intense competition.
People sometimes get confused with the, that I o sound and they might think it is I A.
But this is clearly a misspelling and it should be ion.